Dear Penguin Posse, Here are some quick reminders before our meet against Silver Creek tomorrow. We also have a lot of information about upcoming events! In the next two weeks, we have the middle school event: LaserMaxx, the last chance to sign up for the Raft Trip, the Overnighter and Splash & Dash. Please read about all of these events in this newsletter. SILVER CREEK @ LPAC: SATURDAY, JUNE 14 Date: Saturday, June 14, 2025 Pool Gates will open at 6:20 am  Time: LPAC swimmers need to check in by 6:40 am The meet starts at 8:00 am and generally ends around 1:30pm. If your child is sick please text Coach Julia @ 408-334-0657 and the Volunteer Coordinators: Li @ 408-930-8033 or Jeannie @ 408-981-3370 ASAP  Please check the Silver Creek page for volunteer assignments. Meet entries are posted here and will be posted on boards at the pool during the meet. LPAC SWEATSHIRT RAFFLE Have you ever wondered where the coaches get their hand embroidered LPAC sweatshirts from? Our very own Coach Julia makes them for each new coach every year with plenty of Penguin spirit. This year for the very first time she has decided to raffle off four of her hand embroidered LPAC sweatshirts. All proceeds from the raffle to go to ALS research. Raffle tickets are $1 each, Raffle tickets only available for purchase at our two upcoming home meets 6/14 and 6/21. Tickets will be drawn at the end of the two upcoming home meets. Two tickets will be drawn at the end of our Silver Creek meet this Saturday and two tickets will be drawn at our home meet against Oaktree the following Saturday. There will be two winners drawn per meet. Winners must be at the pool when the tickets are drawn in order to receive one of the sweatshirts.   Coach Caitlyn’s friendship bracelets will be available at the snack snack as well. She will have new LPAC friendship bracelets and ALS bracelets to help fund ALS research. PARENT RELAY TEAM INFO If you want to join our undefeated Parent Relay Team, please bring your suit and goggles to our upcoming meets.  Many of our opponents enjoy ending meets with a parent or family relay.  Please email info@swimlpac.org if you are interested in participating and Jennie Anderson will approach and confirm you can swim during the meet.  It’s a fun tradition and your Penguin family looks forward to cheering you on especially your little penguin. It’s so fun for them to see their Parent’s swim. LPAC CODE OF CONDUCT REMINDER We want to remind all families that adults and swimmers signed the LPAC Code of Conduct.  An important excerpt from the Code of Conduct is below. ● Swimmer(s) agree to stay only on the picnic, and grassy areas with coordinated knowledge of adult supervision for myself if I am present during a practice other than my own. The Clubhouse is off limits.  ● I agree to accept the consequences as decided by the coaches, parents, and or volunteers if I violate the Code of Conduct.  Swimmers are to be supervised by an adult if swimmer is still at pool during a practice other than their own ATTENTION MIDDLE SCHOOL AGE (11-14) PENGUINS! Join us for our LPAC Middle School Social Event at LaserMaxx, June 16 @ 4:00! Individual Penguin parents must make reservations for this event. They can be made and paid for here:LaserMaxx Reservation Make sure you reserve the 4:00 slot for Laser Tag so you can be with other Penguins.Only 35 spots are available per reservation, so don’t wait! Check out the Age Group Events page for more information on this event. If you are interested in planning an Age Group Event for a different age group this page will tell you how to do that.  RAFT TRIP: JULY 5, LAST CHANCE TO SIGN UP JUNE 21 Directions on how to sign up for this beloved LPAC tradition on Raft Trip page of website. Make sure you fill out a waiver form for the rafting company. All Penguins and family members must be signed up and paid for by June 21. OVERNIGHTER: JUNE 28, 2025 The annual Overnighter is one of LPAC’s most treasured traditions and a highlight of every swim team season. LPAC swimmers get to camp out in tents on the grass next to the Los Paseos pool and stay up late swimming, dancing, playing dodge ball, and just having fun with their friends. More information on the Overnighter page. Register your swimmer(s) here: 2025 Overnighter Registration SPLASH & DASH: JULY 1, 2025 It is just about that time of year again. Time to start getting all of those pledges for the 2025 Splash & Dash! All proceeds benefit LPAC and help pay for things like updating the LPAC container, reimbursement for the new LPAC flag, new flippers for practices, new speakers for Starters and new printer for computer team to use at meets. Please go to the Splash & Dash page and sign up to volunteer to be a Penguin Lap Counter for the morning of the Splash & Dash Tuesday, July 1. Volunteer for the practice of your swimmer or swimmers or for all morning. Check your family folder on Monday, 6/16, for a Splash & Dash Pledge Sheet for your swimmer. If you have multiple swimmers you may want to print out extra Pledge Sheets. Prizes for Swim-A-Thon will be distributed during Spirit Night to the swimmers that bring in donations .PRACTICES: Morning Practice JUNE 9 – JULY 18 High School: 6:45–7:45/8:15 am* 11-14: 7:45–8:45/9:15 am* 8-10: 8:45–9:30 am 7 & under: 9:30–10:15 am Please arrive on time and ready to swim! *Swimmers ages 11 and up have 30 minutes of dryland exercises immediately following their regular practice times on three mornings a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Please bring running shoes on those days. **Swimmers who are unable to attend morning practice because of summer school or work commitments may attend night practices, on Tuesday and Thursday from 8:00-9:00 pm. Ages 10 & under 8-8:45 pm on one side of the pool and Ages 11-18 8-9 pm on the other side of the pool. Limited space available in these practices. Swimmers must have coaches’ prior permission to attend night practices. Email coaches @ coaches@swimlpac.org 2025 LPAC COMMUNITY BOOK Help your fellow penguin families get to know you and your swimmer(s)!  Add your family picture to the 2025 LPAC Community Book, add your swimmer’s names and ages along with some fun family facts to a slide. This is a fun way to get to know all of the families on the team. A volunteer parent photographer will also be available at the swim meets to take quick pictures for you.  UPCOMING EVENTS: Link upcoming events to your Google Calendar

Dear Penguin Posse,

All of our swimmers swam great on Saturday. It was a close meet with the final score being, LPAC:120.3 and AGCC: 127.6. Next meet we will be victorious.

The LPAC Coach Relay Team beat the Gator Coaches. Our LPAC Parent Relay Team won too. Thank you to the penguins that stayed to cheer on our coaches and parents in the pool. 

Meet Results from LPAC @ Almaden are in the email newsletter.!

SILVER CREEK @ LPAC: SATURDAY, JUNE 14

• If your child will have to miss all or part of the meet against Silver Creek, please send an email to coaches@swimlpac.org and volunteers@swimlpac.org TODAY! It is important to let our Coaches and Volunteer Coordinators know ASAP if your swimmer will be missing any part of a meet.
• The swimmers that we already know will be missing are: Parker H., Zhen Yu L., Sebastian R., Patrick N., Sophie N., Robin J., Claire L., Ben H., Julian G., Tyson P., Tyler P., John A, Diego C., Nico C., Jose C., Caleb G. 
• If your swimmers name is not listed above and you will be missing all or part of the Silver Creek meet, we need to know ASAP.
• Check in time for our next meet is between 6:30-6:40 am. 

PRACTICES:

Morning Practice will start this morning, Monday June 9. 

JUNE 9 – JULY 18

• High School: 6:45–7:45/8:15 am*
• 11-14: 7:45–8:45/9:15 am*
• 8-10: 8:45–9:30 am
• 7 & under: 9:30–10:15 am

Please arrive on time and ready to swim!

• *Swimmers ages 11 and up have 30 minutes of dryland exercises immediately following their regular practice times on three mornings a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Please bring running shoes on those days.**Swimmers who are unable to attend morning practice because of summer school or work commitments may attend night practices, on Tuesday and Thursday from 8:00-9:00 pm. Ages 10 & under 8-8:45 pm on one side of the pool and Ages 11-18 8-9 pm on the other side of the pool. Limited space available in these practices. Swimmers must have coaches’ prior permission to attend night practices. Email coaches @ coaches@swimlpac.org

PICTURE DAY: NEXT THURSDAY, JUNE 12

Check out the Picture Day page on the website for details on how to order extra pictures. Also there is a picture day flyer in each family’s folder on the ledge by the coaches tables at practices.Details:

• Date: June 12, 2025
• Association members individual/ sibling/ buddy photos start at 7:45 am
  • All swimmers should be at the pool by 8:30 am to take team pictures at 9:00 am
  • Remaining individual photos can be taken after the team picture
• Location: Los Paseos Pool
• Cost: None, unless you want to purchase additional prints or buddy pictures

PENGUIN POOL PARTY: NEXT THURSDAY JUNE 12

All LPAC swimmers are invited to come enjoy a fun pool party with their penguin pals. We’ll also have Root Beer Floats and make tie-dye shirts to show our penguin pride!

Details

• Date: June 12, 2025
• Time: 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm; Must check in by 4:30 pm at the latest to do tie-dye! 
• Cost:
  • No charge for Association members
  • Non-members: $5 per person Cash or Venmo accepted (children under age 2 are free) paid at gate.
• Swimmers will be provided with a Penguin shirt to tie-dye.
  • We have a limited supply of each size, so arrive early for best chance to get your preferred size (first come/first served).
  • T-shirts are free for LPAC swimmers only…donations of any amount are appreciated (but not required) to help offset costs of this fun event!
  • T-shirts for parents or non-LPAC swimmers will be available for purchase beginning at 4:30 for $10 each, while supplies last.
  • Feel free to bring your own t-shirt to dye at no cost.
• Parents of swimmers 12 and under, please plan to stay during this event. This is not a drop off event. 
• Contact: Lynnae Brady if you have any questions

2025 LPAC COMMUNITY BOOK

Help your fellow penguin families get to know you and your swimmer(s)!  Add your family picture to the 2025 LPAC Community Book, add your swimmer’s names and ages along with some fun family facts to a slide. This is a fun way to get to know all of the families on the team. A volunteer parent photographer will also be available at the swim meets to take quick pictures for you. 
 

PARENT RELAY TEAM INFO

If you want to join our undefeated Parent Relay Team, please bring your suit and goggles to our upcoming meets.  Many of our opponents enjoy ending meets with a parent or family relay.  Please email info@swimlpac.org if you are interested in participating and Jennie Anderson will approach and confirm you can swim during the meet.  It’s a fun tradition and your Penguin family looks forward to cheering you on especially your little penguin. It’s so fun for them to see their Parent’s swim.

ATTENTION MIDDLE SCHOOL AGE (11-14) PENGUINS!

Join us for our LPAC Middle School Social Event at LaserMaxx, June 16 @ 4:00! 

• Individual Penguin parents must make reservations for this event. They can be made and paid for here:LaserMaxx Reservation 
• Make sure you reserve the 4:00 slot for Laser Tag so you can be with other Penguins.
• Only 35 spots are available per reservation, so don’t wait!

Be sure to claim the “Summer Triple Maxx” Deal!

Rides:
Swimmers will need to be driven to and from LaserMaxx for this social event.  Please reach out to fellow middle school penguins to arrange carpool groups. If you are able to drive and accommodate rides for other LPAC kids, please reach out to Lynette by June 9 and let her know how many spots you have available!  If we have enough volunteers, Lynette will follow up to offer carpool spots.
An LPAC parent will stay at LaserMaxx during the kids’ two hour play session, all parents are also welcome to stay!  Looking forward to getting our fellow Middle School Penguins together for some summer fun!
Please reach out to Lynette Gill with any questions.

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UPCOMING EVENTS: Link upcoming events to your Google Calendar

 Dear Penguin Family,

Here are some quick reminders before our meet against Almaden tomorrow. We also have a lot of information about upcoming events! Next Thursday, June 12th, is a big day with both Picture day and the Penguin Pool Party. Information for both events near the bottom of this email. Also, we start morning practices next week, so look at the practice section and make sure you get to practice on time.

A quick reminder, if you have two or more children on LPAC, parents are required to volunteer for two shifts per meet. It is up to our Volunteer Coordinators to decide if we need you for each meet. Please let us know if you are unable to be at a meet at least a week in advance if possible. This helps us to plan the meets better if we know who will be there ahead of time.

Meet Results from Time Trials are here! We are not posting the meet entries nor the meet results on the webpage anymore. You will only be able to find meet entries and results in the newsletters from now on. Most pools will have the meet entries posted during meets so you can look for those.

LPAC @ ALMADEN: SATURDAY, JUNE 7

• Date: Saturday, June 7, 2025
• Location: Almaden Country Club 6663 Hampton Dr. San Jose 95120
• Pool opens at 6:30 am for setup. 
• Check in Time: 6:45 am Swimmers must check in with coaches, and Parents must check in with Volunteer Coordinators no later than 6:45 am 
• If your child is sick, please text both the Coaches and Volunteer Coordinators as soon as possible.
  • Coach Julia @ 408-334-0657 , and 
  • Volunteer Coordinators: Li @ 408-930-8033 or Jeannie @ 408-981-3370. 
• Meet starts at 8:15 am
• Visiting team will be located on the turf on the far side of the pool. Please plan to share EZ-ups.
• Street parking is available along Hampton and on Crown. Only Almaden Golf & Country Club members can park in the parking lot.
• AGCC will have a food available for purchase.
• No pets.
• Please check the Almaden page for volunteer assignments 
• Meet Entries are posted in this email.

PARENT RELAY TEAM

Please bring your suit and goggles to our upcoming meets.  Many of our opponents enjoy ending meets with a parent or family relay.  Please email info@swimlpac.org if you are interested in participating and Jennie Anderson will approach and confirm you can swim during the meet.  It’s a fun tradition and your Penguin family looks forward to cheering you on especially your little penguin. It’s so fun for them to see their Parent’s swim.

2025 LPAC COMMUNITY BOOK

Help your fellow penguin families get to know you and your swimmer(s)!  Add your family picture to the 2025 LPAC Community Book, add your swimmer’s names and ages along with some fun family facts to a slide. This is a fun way to get to know all of the families on the team. A volunteer parent photographer will also be available at the swim meets to take quick pictures for you. 

PICTURE DAY: NEXT THURSDAY, JUNE 12

Check out the Picture Day page on the website for details on how to order extra pictures. Also there is a picture day flyer in each family’s folder on the ledge by the coaches tables at practices.Details:

• June 12
• Association members individual/ sibling/ buddy photos start at 7:45 am
  • All swimmers should be at the pool by 8:30 am to take team pictures at 9:00 am
  • Remaining individual photos can be taken after the team picture
• Location: Los Paseos Pool
• Cost: None, unless you want to purchase additional prints or buddy pictures

PENGUIN POOL PARTY: NEXT THURSDAY JUNE 12

All LPAC swimmers are invited to come enjoy a fun pool party with their penguin pals. We’ll also have Root Beer Floats and make tie-dye shirts to show our penguin pride!

Details

• Date: June 12, 2025
• Time: 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm; Must check in by 4:30 pm at the latest to do tie-dye! 
• Cost:
  • No charge for Association members
  • Non-members: $5 per person Cash or Venmo accepted (children under age 2 are free) paid at gate.
• Swimmers will be provided with a Penguin shirt to tie-dye.
  • We have a limited supply of each size, so arrive early for best chance to get your preferred size (first come/first served).
  • T-shirts are free for LPAC swimmers only…donations of any amount are appreciated (but not required) to help offset costs of this fun event!
  • T-shirts for parents or non-LPAC swimmers will be available for purchase beginning at 4:30 for $10 each, while supplies last.
  • Feel free to bring your own t-shirt to dye at no cost.
• Parents of swimmers 12 and under, please plan to stay during this event. This is not a drop off event. 
• Contact: Lynnae Brady if you have any questions

FROM LPHOA

Please keep children off of the lawn when the sprinklers are running. The HOA wants to keep the grass in good condition for as long as they can. Also they have noticed mud being tracked into the bathrooms outside of normal pool hours.

ATTENTION MIDDLE SCHOOL AGE (11-14) PENGUINS!

Join us for our LPAC Middle School Social Event at LaserMaxx, June 16 @ 4:00! 

• Individual Penguin parents must make reservations for this event. They can be made and paid for here:LaserMaxx Reservation 
• Make sure you reserve the 4:00 slot for Laser Tag so you can be with other Penguins.
• Only 35 spots are available per reservation, so don’t wait!

Be sure to claim the “Summer Triple Maxx” Deal!

Rides:
Swimmers will need to be driven to and from LaserMaxx for this social event.  Please reach out to fellow middle school penguins to arrange carpool groups. If you are able to drive and accommodate rides for other LPAC kids, please reach out to Lynette by June 9 and let her know how many spots you have available!  If we have enough volunteers, Lynette will follow up to offer carpool spots.
An LPAC parent will stay at LaserMaxx during the kids’ two hour play session, all parents are also welcome to stay!  Looking forward to getting our fellow Middle School Penguins together for some summer fun!
Please reach out to Lynette Gill with any questions.

PRACTICES:

Morning Practice will start next Monday June 9. 

JUNE 9 – JULY 18

• High School: 6:45–7:45/8:15 am*
• 11-14: 7:45–8:45/9:15 am*
• 8-10: 8:45–9:30 am
• 7 & under: 9:30–10:15 am
• Please arrive on time and ready to swim!*Swimmers ages 11 and up have 30 minutes of dryland exercises immediately following their regular practice times on three mornings a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Please bring running shoes on those days.**Swimmers who are unable to attend morning practice because of summer school or work commitments may attend night practices, on Tuesday and Thursday from 8:00-9:00 pm. Ages 10 & under 8-8:45 pm on one side of the pool and Ages 11-18 8-9 pm on the other side of the pool. Limited space available in these practices. Swimmers must have coaches’ prior permission to attend night practices. Email coaches @ coaches@swimlpac.org

UPCOMING EVENTS: Link upcoming events to your Google Calendar